Cameroon Criminal Procedure Code 2005 - On TRACK against ...

npuomp:aétést inle 66.Section 66: Time shall start to run afresh if one or more of the following acts should occur: thelodging of a complaint, written orders issued by the Legal Department instituting measures ofinvestigations, processes served by bailiffs, reports of police investigations, court processes,hearing of the parties and witnesses during preliminary inquiry or in court, interlocutory rulingsand declarations of appeal.Section 67: Acts which set the time prescribed for prosecution to run afresh shall have an effecteven as regards persons who are not implicated or named in such acts.Section 68:(1) The time-limit shall be suspended be any de jure or de facto bars which may prevent thecommencement of criminal action.(2) It shall be considered as de jure bars where:(a) there is an interlocutory plea against the judgement being given;(b) there is parliamentary immunity;(c) a fiat to prosecute is being awaited;(d) an appeal to the Supreme Court has been lodged;(e) there is a conflict of jurisdiction.(3) De facto bars shall in particular include the following:(a) invasion of the territory by enemy forces;(b) insanity of the suspect, the defendant or the accused after the commission of the offence;(c) the escape of the suspect, defendant or accused;(d) the enlisting of the case for hearing;(e) adjournment of the case entered in the record-book;(f) the fact that a court by failing to perform an act within its jurisdiction, has prevented a partyfrom exercising his legal rights to take action or to defend himself.